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Guiding Requirements for Designing Life Support System Architectures for Crewed Exploration Missions Beyond Low-Earth OrbitThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) technology development roadmaps provide guidance to focus technological development in areas that enable crewed exploration missions beyond low-Earth orbit. Specifically, the technology area roadmap on human health, life support and habitation systems describes the need for life support system (LSS) technologies that can improve reliability and in-flight maintainability within a minimally-sized package while enabling a high degree of mission autonomy. To address the needs outlined by the guiding technology area roadmap, NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Program has commissioned the Life Support Systems (LSS) Project to lead technology development in the areas of water recovery and management, atmosphere revitalization, and environmental monitoring. A notional exploration LSS architecture derived from the International Space has been developed and serves as the developmental basis for these efforts. Functional requirements and key performance parameters that guide the exploration LSS technology development efforts are presented and discussed. Areas where LSS flight operations aboard the ISS afford lessons learned that are relevant to exploration missions are highlighted.
Document ID
20160012091
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Perry, Jay L. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Sargusingh, Miriam J. (NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Toomarian, Nikzad (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
October 7, 2016
Publication Date
September 13, 2016
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Report/Patent Number
M16-5516
Meeting Information
Meeting: AIAA Space Forum and Exhibition 2016
Location: Long Beach, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: September 13, 2016
End Date: September 16, 2016
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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